And the iChicken, obviously, was more like the sandwich-board guy by the side of the road. In this redefined world of sudden mass exposure, YouTube serves as the center spotlight. Much more than 140-character tweets or Pinterest boards, videos seem to carry that emotional heft that marketing executive Devra Prywes with video-tracking service Unruly says is crucial to making people want to share what they see. “We study why viral videos work,” Prywes says. “And we’ve found that they don’t have to be sexy or flashy to be highly shared. A video goes viral because it makes people feel something. What matters most is making that emotional connection, which then makes people who feel it want to share it with others.”.

Anyway, back to Week 7 — if Latin Night wasn’t enough to get your toes tapping in anticipation, it was a Team Dance week with both teams doing a “freestyle” routine to a Ricky Martin tune in addition to each couple’s individual dance, On Team Loca, girls ballet dance slippers shoes machine embroidery design 4x4 and 5x7 hoop instant download sale dancing to “Livin’ La Vida Loca,” were Meryl & Maks, Amy & Derek, Danica & Val, and Candace & Mark, Dancing to “Cup of Life,” was Team Vida: Charlie & Sharna, James & Peta, and NeNe & Tony, At first glance, it seemed that Team Loca had an advantage, both in numbers of couples and in higher-scoring pairs, but who knew that one of the team would be missing in action..

The next surprise was when James Maslow and Peta Murgatroyd were declared safe and would dance in the final, while Meryl Davis and Maks Chmerkovskiy were in jeopardy! This was ridiculous — did their low-ish score last week doom them to miss the final??. I could go on about all of the other dances, but I won’t keep you in suspense. As Amy and Derek, Meryl and Maks, and Charlie and Sharna stood waiting to find out who was out, Tom told Amy and Derek that they were safe. And then as the dum-dum-dum-dum music ticked away, the couple going home was — Charlie and Sharna. Well, someone had to go, but the power of the viewers is obvious when dancers who get perfect scores go home, and those who get 8s and 9s stay on the show.